DeSoto deputy recovers child missing from California

Man and child traveling in a motor home were stopped for a traffic violation in Kickapoo

10:36 PM,
Jan. 30, 2014

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A traffic stop late Wednesday led to the recovery of a California child reported missing in November, DeSoto sheriff's Chief Criminal Deputy Horace Womack said.

Jessie James Rebel, 32, of Castaic, Calif., was booked into DeSoto Detention Center on a fugitive warrant for child stealing issued by the Los Angeles County sheriff's office. His bond is set at $120,000 while he awaits extradition.

The child was placed with the Office of Child Services pending return to the mother in California, Womack said. ...